[governance] Interesting developments in India's cyber security policies

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

There is also mention of adoption of open standards - which has also been emphasized in the past by various sections of GoI

Participation in existing standards processes and working groups is key though.  Both participation by government and facilitating / encouraging the participation of other stakeholders.

These and several others are unfortunately old wine in a new bottle, right now.

What is urgently lacking is a privacy law - which is required urgently because of a huge privacy vacuum in India (with marketers getting hold of ID proof and other personal data submitted to service providers, cases of data theft from call centers etc - not to mention the current and proposed monitoring and lawful intercept efforts the government has in plan)
 
I know that industry groups and civil society are collaborating on creating suggested drafts of a privacy bill, but there has also been a long standing tendency among certain parts of the bureaucracy to completely ignore public feedback, or if they have a feedback / consultation phase at all, make it perfunctory, with comments only from a few invited people and organizations.

--srs (iPad)

On 03-Jul-2013, at 15:39, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

> 
> While in any national cyber security policy one has to also watch out for newer avenues to control/censor content, because the same infrastructure can be used for it, on a different note, what is noteworthy is the Minister’s insistence on need for global standards. 
> 
> to quote
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> "In the ultimate analysis, we have to develop global standards because there is no way that we can have a policy within the context of India which is not connected with the rest of the world because information knows no territorial boundaries," Mr Sibal added.  He said everything today is cross border, we have to corroborate to find what is that meeting ground which allows the citizens to be empowered and at the same time ensures that nation is safe."
> 
> http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/government-releases-national-cyber-security-policy-2013-386905 
> 
> On Wednesday 03 July 2013 02:22 PM, Chaitanya Dhareshwar wrote:
>> http://www.techgig.com/tech-news/editors-pick/Govt-releases-National-Cyber-Security-Policy-2013-18707
>>  
>> [From the article] With an aim to protect information and build capabilities to prevent cyberattacks, the government released the National Cyber Security Policy 2013 to safeguard both physical and business assets of the country. 
>>  
>> IMHO this is quite late - but at least it's there. The clauses of the policy are the usual "subject to further improvement" though it's a step in some direction (as against the policy paralysis that's been going on the past year).
>>  
>> -C
>> 
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